[Gretl-users] Several bugs and glitches

While updating the Turkish translation today, I noticed a bunch of small errors or glitches. Nothing critical but still important for the sake of perfection: 1)-In a scatter plot with a fitted line, in the edit window, selecting "none" for the fitted line leaves the title of the plot unchanged. Choosing other options update the title string as expected (with loess fit etc.) 2)-In the gretl plot controls, after choosing the "logarithmic scale, base:" option, the box on the right doesn't become white (stays gray) immediately. Also, in the labels tab, if the user chooses "add..." and doesn't do anything, the empty label is not automatically removed after closing the window. I think I have mentioned this little glitch before and you said this is low priority but I think it would be nice if you could fix this because it becomes annoying once you know it is there :-P 3)-In the USMacroM.gdt (Stock & Watson 2e) dataset, doing Hurst exponent on the variable IP causes an error message. Other variables work OK. This happens in the Turkish translation and not in the English mode. 4)-When there is a large number of observations (such as over 500 in USMacroM.gdt), for forecasting, using "error bars" for the confidence interval creates a messy graph where the observations and the forecasts are completely covered with the error bars. 5)-Again using the USMacroM.gdt dataset. I estimate the GMM model where IP is the dependent variable, OIL_1, CPI_1 and PCED_1 are the independent variables and OIL, CPI and PCED are the instruments (just for quickly testing the output window). Gretl creates an icon named "gmm___V" and trying to open this causes the error message "Couldn't open 'of the regression'..." Moreover, with the Turkish translation, this error message has weird characters such as "Q '..." or "' \Uffffffff..." 6)-Item 1038 in the pot file: Number of cases `correctly predicted' This, I think is for LaTeX output and the resulting string has the additional " = xxx (xx percent). This additional "percent" part is not translatable from the po. The same is true for the program output string, which has the additonal part reading " = xxx (xx%). This percent sign may need to be put before the number xx in some languages. 7)-After omitting variables from a model, I think it would be a bit compact and tidier not having empty lines right after "Comparison of Model..." as well as the "Null hypothesis: the regression parameters are zero for the variables" line and finally before the "Test statistic: F..." line. Also, here wouldn't it be better to say "variable(s)" since there can be just one variable? 8)-In the ANOVA model estimation output window, the strings "response" and "treatment" are not translated. 9)-In the sort data... window, the string "Select sort key" is not marked for translation. 10)-When adding an index variable or a time trend, the name is automatically set as "Index" or "time". Is it possible that these strings are translatable? 11)-In the about window, I think it would be a bit better if the "build date..." string was written in paranthesis. Also, you have told me in Bilbao that it would now be possible to put an url in the about window. 12)-Finally, the labels in the summary statistics window cannot be not aligned properly in my translation. Here is what I get: Özet istatistikler, kullanılan gözlemler: 1 - 51 Ortalama Ortanca Enaz Ençok exphlth 15,265 10,066 0,99800 94,178 income 105,13 64,100 9,3000 683,50 Ölç. Sap. D.K. Çarpıklık Basıklık exphlth 17,888 1,1718 2,4497 6,8380 income 125,30 1,1918 2,5931 8,0094 I hope these are useful. Cheers A. Talha Yalta -- "Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) --